The identity of an artwork is type relative, and is determined by our needs, interests and values; hence fetishistic. Artists want passive viewers to become active participants-- "Contemporary exhibitions feel like remedial work in socialisation."
"The society of spectacle is followed by the society of extras where everyone finds the illusion of an interactive democracy in more or less truncated channels of communication." [1] Thus, art proceeds within the world of lived relationships and circumstances, creating new conditions – “relational devices” – out of the set of existing forms, objects and relations. It does this by taking up and transforming existing conditions and relations, such as those that persist in the art world.
By utilising fetishistic tropes, I agree that the idea of community has taken on a utopian tinge. As Octave Mannoni, French Lacanian psychoanalyst, said of fetishism, "I know very well but nevertheless…"
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[1] Arty Party. Hal Foster pp. 22
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